Are you or your clients remembering that story accurately? Some ways to checkhttp://westallen.typepad.com/brains_on_purpose/2015/02/are-you-or-your-clients-remembering-that-story-accurately-some-ways-to-check.html
I recommend to you this excellent article written by the authors of The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us. They offer 10 ways to check the accuracy of our very malleable and faulty memory. Journalists know that when they hear something from one source, they should corroborate it with independent sources before reporting it. The science of memory has...BrainConflictMemorySelf-AwarenessStephanieWestAllen2015-02-11T07:41:15-07:00New edition of MINDFULNESS RESEARCH MONTHLY now availablehttp://westallen.typepad.com/brains_on_purpose/2015/01/new-edition-of-mindfulness-research-monthly-now-available.html
The January issue offers 12 Interventions 17 Associations 7 Methods 13 Reviews 1 TrialBrainMindfulnessNeuroscienceStephanieWestAllen2015-01-13T15:44:41-07:00Brain overclaim syndrome: Can I convince you I know something by citing neuroscience?http://westallen.typepad.com/brains_on_purpose/2014/12/brain-overclaim-syndrome-can-i-convince-you-i-know-something-by-citing-neuroscience.html
Are so many mediators citing neuroscience these days because it is cool? Hot? Fashionable? I don't know. That the science being cited is often either inaccurate or not helpful to conflict resolution is sometimes a tad disturbing. Even though I have blogged about it before, I had forgotten about the phrase "brain overclaim syndrome" until reading this book review from...BrainMediationNeuro-TalkNeuroscienceStephanieWestAllen2014-12-18T13:12:49-07:00Are you sure that's what happened? Most conflicts are part fiction, part distortion, part deadhttp://westallen.typepad.com/brains_on_purpose/2014/12/are-you-sure-thats-what-happened-.html
When we recall something that occurred in the past, our recollection is not accurate like a video camera. Some if not much of our memory is fabricated. Our fuzzy, faulty memory has been covered before both at this blog and in many books and articles: the memory's shiftiness is by now notorious. So why I am writing about it again?...MemoryStephanieWestAllen2014-12-05T07:29:42-07:00My absence from posting here will be over soon: Why I have been gonehttp://westallen.typepad.com/brains_on_purpose/2014/08/my-absence-from-posting-here-will-be-over-soon.html
Due to a death in my family, I have not been an active blogger here or at idealawg. I plan to come back to posting in the very near future.StephanieWestAllen2014-08-03T15:25:45-06:00Adding "neuro" to a word supposedly adds credibility but often signals neurohypehttp://westallen.typepad.com/brains_on_purpose/2014/07/adding-neuro-supposedly-adds-credibility-but-often-signals-neurohype.html
Listen to Christian Jarrett, neuroscientist turned science writer, describing the many myths about the brain covered in today's media (kuow.org). The interview of Jarrett is less than 10 minutes long and worth a few minutes of your time. Jarrett has a new book coming out in the fall titled Great Myths of the Brain. I am looking forward to the...BooksBrainNeuro-TalkNeuroscienceSimplistic ExplanationStephanieWestAllen2014-07-23T12:19:52-06:00Seven challenges when using the neuroscience lens to see the worldhttp://westallen.typepad.com/brains_on_purpose/2014/06/seven-challenges-in-studying-neuroscience.html
Over the years, I have learned that people reading this blog come from a wide range of belief systems, including atheist, agnostic, and those involved to large or small degree in various spiritual and religious practices. Although this blog post to which I am linking today is written by a Christian and part of the post is from a Christian...BrainNeuro-TalkNeuroscienceSimplistic ExplanationStephanieWestAllen2014-06-10T10:06:27-06:00Wish to learn more about learning? Two new books on changing the brain through learninghttp://westallen.typepad.com/brains_on_purpose/2014/06/two-new-books-on-changing-the-brain-through-learning.html
T-shirt from this year's APS conference Does resolving conflict require learning? Typically, yes, of course. If no one in the dispute learns anything new, the conflict will probably remain unresolved. That's one of the reasons learning is often mentioned here at BonP. In May, I attended the 26th annual convention of the Association of Psychological Science; some of the presentations...AttentionBooksBrainLearningMemoryStephanieWestAllen2014-06-03T15:11:09-06:00Neuroscientist describes darker side of meditation to the Dalai Lama and he respondshttp://westallen.typepad.com/brains_on_purpose/2014/05/neuroscientist-describes-darker-side-of-meditation-to-the-dalai-lama-and-he-responds.html
Click to watch Dr. Willoughby Britton talk to the Dalai Lama about her research on the negative effects of meditation. He responds that problems can occur when the practice is decontextualized and is not grounded in tradition, knowledge, ethics, and morality. So often today we see people blithely stripping off the practice from its tradition and using meditation for be-here-now,...MeditationMindMindfulnessStephanieWestAllen2014-05-09T18:10:11-06:00Evaluating science: The good, the bad, the iffyhttp://westallen.typepad.com/brains_on_purpose/2014/04/evaluating-science-the-good-the-bad-the-iffy.html
Everyday the media report science findings and the journals churn out research articles. In addition to feeling inundated, the lay reader may also wonder what's accurate and what's suspect and what's downright bogus. Here are three articles that can remind us to be discerning. First is an interview with neuroscience researcher Dr. Willoughby Britton. Although she is addressing the science...NeuroscienceStephanieWestAllen2014-04-30T20:47:08-06:00"The Trouble with Mirror Neurons": Do people really even have them?http://westallen.typepad.com/brains_on_purpose/2014/04/the-trouble-with-mirror-neurons.html
From "The Trouble with Mirror Neurons" (mindful): When researchers discovered neurons in monkey brains that fired when an action was performed or observed, they were dubbed “mirror neurons.” And they quickly became the go-to explanation for empathy. Decades later, says Sharon Begley, the evidence that human beings have them is sketchy at best. ... Mirror neurons were indeed a paradigm-changing...BrainBrain AnatomyNeuroscienceSimplistic ExplanationStephanieWestAllen2014-04-23T13:38:44-06:00Video: Amishi Jha on the neuroscience of mindfulnesshttp://westallen.typepad.com/brains_on_purpose/2014/04/video-amishi-jha-on-the-neuroscience-of-mindfulness.html
In February, a large group of us were fortunate to hear neuroscientist Amishi Jha speak on the brain science of mindfulness. All of you, no matter where you are, can watch part of her program now. Click to see her Friday evening lecture. The YouTube description: Respected brain researcher Amishi Jha brings a fascinating exploration of findings from cutting-edge neuroscience...AttentionBrainMeditationMindfulnessNeuroscienceStephanieWestAllen2014-04-08T06:40:42-06:00